Acknowledgements

This report has benefited from advice from a number of individuals and organisations with interest and expertise in health care.

In particular the Authority received advice from its Patient Experience Advisory Group. The Advisory Group comprised:

Ms Carol Bennett

Dr Nicola Dunbar

Ms Louise Gates

Dr Karen Luxford

Mr David Stokes

Associate Professor Mark Wenitong.

This report relies on data provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA). These data were used to calculate the performance measures in this report. The Authority does a number of checks to ensure data quality, and also relies on the data quality work of the ABS and DoHA.